Contributors

Omo Omoruyi

 

Elize van As

 

Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Abdoulaye Ndiaye is a Senegalese expert and international consultant in development. He edited this book as a member and on behalf of the IDRC Council ...

J.M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee has won the ...

Hope Eghagha

Dr Hope Eghagha is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Lagos.

Valentine Umelo

Valentine Umelo won the BBC African Performance Playwriting competition in 2002 with his radio play 'Knight in Shining Armour'. He also won a UNESCO residency ...

Mpilo Pearl Sithole

Dr Mpilo Pearl Sithole is a senior research specialist at the South African Human Sciences Research Council. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from the ...

Inge Brinkman

Inge Brinkman has been attached to the African Studies Centre since April 2008 while she carries out research into communication technologies and social relations in ...

Marc Epprecht

Marc Epprecht’s major interest is the history of gender and sexuality in southern Africa. As well as African history, he currently teaches courses on "AIDS, ...

Tayeb Chenntouf

 

Therese M.S. Tchombe

Professor Therese M.S. Tchombe, member of ERNWACA, is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Buea in Cameroon.

Thierry Karsenti

Professor Thierry Karsenti of the University of Montreal holds the Canada Research Chair in Information and Communition Technology (ICT) in Education.

Nicasius Achu Check

Nicasius Achu Check is a research specialist in the Peace and Security Research Unit at the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA). Before joining AISA, ...

Murindwa-Rutanga

Murindwa-Rutanga is a professor of Political Science at Makerere University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Makerere University, and a ...

Lloyd Sachikonye

Lloyd Sachikonye (1954) was born and educated in Zimbabwe. After attending Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria where he did his M.Sc. in Political Science, he ...

Komla Tsey

Professor Komla Tsey is a Ghanaian by birth. Since the 1990’s, Komla has been living in Australia researching and learning about health and well-being, mainly ...

Paul Nchoji Nkwi

Paul N. Nkwi is currently Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, following his retirement as Professor of Anthropology at the University ...

Victor B. Bin-Kapela

Victor B. Bin-Kapela was born in 1962, in Likasi, Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied Philosophy and Latin, and obtained a Licentiate in Philosophy from ...

Toni Maraini

Toni Maraini (Antonella Maraini), is an art historian, a writer and a poet. She lived in Morocco from 1964 to 1987 where she taught at ...

Henri Michel Boccara

Henri Michel Boccara, born in Tunis, has lived in Morocco for more then forty years. He studied at the Centre d’expression d’art dramatique of André ...

Karine Joseph

Karine Joseph is a publisher in Casablanca where she grew up and to which she returned more than twenty years. She founded Editions du Sirocco ...

Mohamed Mrabet

MOHAMED MRABET, the Tangerine storyteller whose stories have been transcribed by Paul Bowles has been published in particular in United States and France (Christian Bourgois ...

Simon-Pierre Hamelin

SIMON-PIERRE HAMELIN is a writer and bookseller in Tangier (Librairie des Colonnes) where he, since January 2007, he publishes the literary review “Nejma”.

Robert Chavagnac

Robert Chavagnac is a retired French teacher who has been living in Casablanca since 1960. He has a passion for history and is also an ...

Amina Aouchar

Amina Aouchar has an M. A. in history, a doctorate in history at Toulouse-le Mirail University, and a State doctorate at Bordeaux III University. She ...

Josiane Lahlou

Josiane Lahlou, Doctorate in French literature, lives in Poitiers after forty years spent in Morocco, where she was a member of the Casablanca Society of ...

Jean-Pierre Koffel

Jean-Pierre Koffel, who died in 2010, was Associate of Arts, University professor of Latin and Greek. Eminent linguist, he also founded the Atelier de création ...

Khalid Rami

Khalid Rami a Research professor, has obtained a European Masters in cultural and natural heritage planning, a DESA in «The Moroccan city: history and preservation» ...

Jean-Michel Andre

Jean-Michel André was born in Nantes in 1976 and is a graduate of the école de l’Image des Gobelins. He has collaborated with Alpha-Omega Press ...

Elisa Chimenti

Italian by birth, Elisa Chimenti was raised in Morocco. She travelled around frequently with her father, personal doctor to Sultan Mawlay Hassan, and was often ...

Yasmina Filali

Yasmina Antonia Filali, born in 1959 in Paris, has a doctorate in History of Art at the Sorbonne University and has collaborated with several journals ...

Jane Knight

Jane Knight focuses her research and professional interests on the international dimenson of higher education at the institutional, system, national, and international levels. She is ...

Bongasu Tanla Kishani

Bongasu Tanla Kishani was born at Kïtiïùwuàm in Nso’, Cameroon. A leading Cameroonian poet and teacher by profession, he is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy ...

Shari Eppel

 

Charles Nzioka

 

Wole Ogundele

 

Gbemisola Adeoti

 

William Muhumuza

Dr. William Muhumuza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Makerere University. He specialises in the study of political economy with ...

Alice P. Tuyizere

Alice P. Tuyizere teaches Religious Education Methods in the School of Education at Makerere University.

Peterkins Manyong

Peterkins Manyong was born in 1959 in Baba 1, Ngoketunjia Division in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. He has a BA in English Modern Letters ...

Christian M. Rogerson

 

Mwalimu George Ngwane

Mwalimu George Ngwane is author of seven books and feature essayist in national and international newspapers, Chairman of the National Book Development Council- Cameroon, Member ...

Emilio Ovuga

Emilio Ovuga is Professor of Psychiatry at Makerere University. Dr Ovuga has experience on psychological and social effects of river blindness, suicide and HIV/AIDS and ...

Jacob Godfrey Agea

Jacob Godfrey Agea is a Lecturer in the Department of Community Forestry and Extension, Makerere University.

Sara Namirembe

Sara Namirembe was previously a Lecturer in the Department of Community Forestry and Extension, Makerere University, and currently woks in civil society organisational work.

Mohamed Bukenya

Mohamed Bukenya is a Lecturer in the Department of Forestry Management, Makerere University, and the coordinator for agriculture and environment in FINIDP, a civil society ...

Ahamada Zziwa

Ahamada Zziwa is a Lecturer in the Department of Forestry Products Engineering, Makerere University, and the executive director of FINIDP. Daniel Waiswa is a Lecturer ...

Blanche Rocha D’Souza

Blanche Rocha D'Souza spent her early childhood in Kenya where her father was stationed as a district cashier. She was educated in Karachi and Mumbai ...

Tendai Huchu

Tendai Huchu was born in 1982 in Bindura, Zimbabwe. He attended Churchill High School in Harare and then went to the University of Zimbabwe to ...

Ingrid Andersen

Ingrid Andersen was born in Johannesburg, read for a degree in English literature at Wits and is presently completing her Masters. Her work has been ...

Russell Wildeman

Russell Wildeman is the manager of Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme.

Kiikpoye K. Aaron

Kiikpoye K. Aaron teaches Political Science at the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Port Harcourt Nigeria.

Célestine Colette Fouellefak Kana

Célestine Colette Fouellefak Kana is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dschang, Cameroon. She did her undergraduate studies at ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Bonaventura Mutayoba Balige

Dr. Bonaventura Mutayoba Balige, SJ, Studied Philosophy and Theology in Kinshasa, Congo and Nairobi, Kenya, respectively. In 1997, he went to the USA to study ...

Hélène Charton-Bigot

Hélène Charton-Bigot is a University affiliate and former student of ENS, Fontenay-St Cloud. She holds a PhD in history. As the in-charge of research at ...

Deyssi Rodriguez-Torres

Deyssi Rodriguez-Torres holds a PhD in political science, which she teaches at Faculté universtaire catholique de Mons – FUCAM, in Belgium. She has carried out ...

Mbugua wa-Mungai

Mbugua wa-Mungai teaches in the Department of Literature at Kenyatta University Nairobi. He researches on urban folklore, popular culture and disability in culture.

George Gona

George Gona teaches in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Nairobi.

Jan Bender Shelter

Jan Bender Shelter holds a PhD in History from the University of Florida and is Professor of History at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.

Moges Yigezu

Moges Yigezu is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Addis Ababa University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, where he teaches phonetics and phonology to ...

Kabiri Ngeta

Kabiri Ngeta studied at Kenyatta University, Yale University and is currently a political scientist and researcher based in Arusha Tanzania.

Jean Hartley

 

Nalova Lyonga

Nalova Lyonga is Professor of Literature and Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Teaching and Information and Communication Technologies, University of Buea, Cameroon.

Ngolle-Metuge

Ngolle-Metuge was Born in Kumba, Meme Division of the South West Region of Cameroon. He holds a B.A in English and literary studies from the ...

Comfort Ashu

Comfort Ashu was born in Sumbe, Manyu Division, Cameroon. A consummate educationist, she pursued university studies in Exeter, Wales and Nairobi, graduating with a Master’s ...

John Ngong Kum Ngong

John Ngong Kum Ngong was born in Esu, Menchum Division, North West Region of Cameroon. He attended Cameroon Protestant College Bali, Bilingual Grammar School Molyko, ...

Rose Hemmer-Vitti

Rose Hemmer-Vitti is a researcher in its Right to Know, Right to Education Project.

Dawari George

Dawari George is the Commissioner for Energy and Natural Resources in the Rivers State Government, Nigeria.

Marita Conlon-Mckenna

 

Birgit Akesson

Birgit Akesson studied dance in Dresden, worked in Paris where she was known as the “Picasso of Dance”, performed and continued to choreograph in Sweden ...

Bernard Calas

Prof Bernard Calas is a Geographer & Professor at the University of Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux France.

C.A. Mumma Martinon

Dr. C.A. Mumma Martinon is a Conflict Prevention Analyst at the International Peace Support Training Centre, Kenya.

Zedekia Oloo Sisoo

Zedekia Oloo Sisoo was born in 1934 and raised in Buturi, Tanzania. He studied medicine in Tanga, which lead to a position in Community Development ...

Funwi F. Ayuninjam

Funwi F. Ayuninjam was born in 1957 in Bambili, a village in the North-West Region of Cameroon. He holds a doctorate in linguistics, and has ...

Monica K. Juma

Monica K. Juma, is the Executive Director: Research at the Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

Katabaro N. Miti

Katabaro N. Miti is a Professor of Politics in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Kwachou Monique

Kwachou Monique is a blend of Cameroonian upbringing in globalised world – a young lady with big dreams but a realistic view of life. She ...

Wanjohi wa Makokha

Wanjohi wa Makokha (b.1979) lives and writes in Neukölln, Berlin. He teaches courses in African, South Asian and Caribbean literature at the Freie University of ...

Thierry Luescher-Mamashela

Dr Thierry Luescher-Mamashela is at the University of the Western Cape.

Kibny'aanko Seroney

 

Tah Asongwed

Tah Asongwed was born in Baforchu (Mbu), Bamenda, Cameroon. After completing secondary school in Sacred Heart College, Bamenda, he attended the Cameroon College of Arts, ...

Mbaye Lo

Dr. Lo is an Assistant Professor of the practice in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, NC.

Samuel Kabue

Samuel Kabue is an ordained elder of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa and the Programme Executive of Ecumenical Disability Advocates Network (EDAN).

Esther Mombo

Prof. Esther Mombo is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) of St. Paul’s University, Limuru Kenya. She is also an associate professor in the Faculty ...

Joseph D. Galgalo

The Rev. Canon Prof. Joseph Galgalo is an assistant professor of theology and Vice Chancellor of St. Paul's University, Limuru, Kenya.

George Kegode

George Kegode is a lecturer in Philosophy at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.

Lyndsey Duff

Lyndsey Duff is a Researcher in the International Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Programme at the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD). Her research primarily focuses on ...

C.B. Peter

 

Safoura A. Salami-Boukari

Born in Togo, Dr. Safoura A. Salami-Boukari Studied in Togo, France and the United States. She holds a Ph.D., and MA in American Studies with ...

Save the Children

 

Kwo Victor Elame Musinga

Playwright, Dramatist, Stage Director and Founder of the pioneer English speaking Drama group, Musinga Drama Group, Cameroon, Kwo Victor Elame Musinga has written over thirty ...

Milton Krieger

Milton Krieger started teaching and research about sub-Saharan Africa in 1970. Nine trips there include four research visits providing two years time in Cameroon, 1989-99. ...

Molly Longwe

Molly Longwe is a lecturer and the Student Dean at the Baptist Theological Seminary of Malawi.

Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah studied law at the Universities of Zimbabwe, Craz in Austria and Cambridge. Her short fiction is featured in three anthologies, Laughing Now and ...

Eva Poluha

 

Akintunde Akinade

Akintunde Akinade teaches World Religions and Christian-Muslim relations at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

Elizabeth Ngozi Okpalaenwe

Sister Elizabeth Ngozi Okpalaenwe was born in Aba, Abia State in Nigeria. She joined the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary (MSHR) at Enugu in ...

Alleyn Diesel

Alleyn Diesel is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, specialising in the study of the place of women in Hinduism in South ...

Babafemi Badejo

Babafemi Badejo, a Political Scientist and Lawyer hails from Nigeria. Badejo, prior to his current role as Head of Political Affairs at the UN Mission ...